Example sentences of "him [prep] the first time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 2 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 3 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 4 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 5 | Igor Stravinsky met him for the first time in this year , and recalled how shy he seemed . |
| 6 | As he unhesitatingly obeyed , she watched him , really examined him for the first time in their acquaintance . |